Subj : Knockout Game
To   : All
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Sun Jul 13 2014 00:01:51

Hello Everybody,

I am sure that everybody has heard of the "Knockout Game" -
as widely reported by CNN, FoxNews, and other cable networks.
For those who are a total recluse and refuse to watch the
boob tube, the story is that teenagers have run amok, run
up and smack a total stranger on side the head in an attempt
to knock them out with a single blow.

I am sure teenagers have done this.  But in epidemic proportions,
as reported/suggested by cable news outlets?  Of that I am not so
sure.

Kids will be kids, and will be dared by other kids to do stupid
things, such as punching a total stranger in the face in broad
daylight.  But sooner or later, mommy and daddy will find out
about it and put a quick end to their driving privileges and
that will be the end of their budding knockout game career.

Teenagers trying to bash people's skulls in.  People who
are usually bigger and stronger than them.  And folks actually
believed those cable news stories as fact.

Such is the power of cable news outlets.  Attempt to make
the crimes fit a trend.  Reporting a few true incidents in
an effort to inspire a handful of copycat crimes, blown
up totally out of proportion to appear as an epidemic.

May we all live in a land of idiots.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/montgomery.asp

--Lee

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